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Poor Jeremy Clarkson. Not only was the motoring journalist involved in fisticuffs with Daily
Mirror editor Piers Morgan, but it also appears he was caught up in an incident involving mistaken identity.

An investment banker related that following filming of a recent episode of Top Gear in Kent, Clarkson was confronted by an angry punter who spat at him, shouting: “I hate you, Paxman.”

Clarkson apparently took the incident in good grace, replying: “That’s a double first. No-one’s spat at me before, and no-one has confused me with Jeremy Paxman.”